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I’ve been on hiatus for a few days.  Last week I was still recovering from my buddy Sam’s bachelor party, we completely made Myrtle Beach our bitch.  Also, for the last few weeks I have been re-writing my very, very, very distant cousin’s diary from the late 1800’s.  I thought it would be cool to re-write his diary from his first voyages on the sea.  My distant cousin was Captain Samuel Holt from Alamance, NC and he left there at the age of 21 to discover the world.  Not having any sailing experience he jumped from boat to boat and traveled all over the world.  Maybe I’ll make it a book beginning with him then go to my grandparents fishing experiences to mine, we shall see.

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Even though the number of fishermen at the DC rally was lower than it was two years ago, the Keep Fisherman Fishing rally in Washington DC (March 23-25) may have been a success…politically.  More Congressmen and Senators joined the march on Washington this year than they did in 2010.  We would like to think that this is because they care about American jobs being at stake, strong conservation measures enforced while allowing Americans to work but realistically it is probably the simple fact that it is an election year and they were probably just out looking for more votes.  I hope that the first part of the last sentence is true, and that these congressmen and senators were out there more for the people they represent than those people’s vote.  I guess only time will tell.

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